Fraser Hamilton
Position: Honorary Research Fellow
Email: f.m.hamilton@city.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7040 8418
Fax: +44 (0)20 7040 8859
Room: E556
Biography
Fraser Hamilton is a Senior Research Consultant at City University. Since joining three years ago, he developed a Television-based Virtual Human Interface, VISTA, for helping disabled and elderly viewers access TV guides. It won the Royal Television Society's Innovation in Engineering Award in 2003.
Fraser was the project manager on the Disability Rights Commission's first Formal Investigation into website accessibility, which involved evaluating 1000 websites (39,000 web pages) and testing 100 sites with a panel of 50 disabled users. The findings will inform Government policy and set the agenda for the future of website development. He is currently involved in the Culture Online project.
Prior to joining City University he was a consultant at Iconmedialab, an international web design agency and before that held lecturing and research posts in Human-Computer Interaction at Brighton and London University respectively. He has worked with clients including Motorola, Vodafone, Legal & General, Alliance & Leicester, The British Council and Mastercard. Fraser's work has been published in Continental Europe, North America, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom. He holds a BSc in Computer Science, an Advanced MSc in Human-Computer Interaction and is a member of the British Computer Society, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Usability Professional's Association.
Key publications
Kelly, B., Sloan, D., Phipps, L., Petrie, H. & Hamilton, F., 2005, Forcing standardization or accommodating diversity?: a framework for applying the WCAG in the real world, Proceedings of the 2005 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A), Chiba, Japan.
H. Petrie, F. Hamilton, N. King, 2003, Tension? What tension?: website accessibility and visual design, ACM SIGCAPH Computers and the Physically Handicapped, Issue 76.
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Bryan-Kinns, N. and Hamilton, F., (2002). One for all and all for one? Case studies of using prototypes in commercial projects. In Proceedings of NordiCHI, October 2002, Denmark.
Hamilton, F., et al, 2001. Prototypes: Representations with political agenda. In J. Bawa (ed) The Usability Business, Springer-Verlag, UK.
Hamilton, F., Johnson, H. and Johnson, P., 1999. From theory to practice: Tool support for task related principles. In Proceedings CHI'99, Pittsburgh, ACM Press.
Johnson, P., Johnson, H. and Hamilton, F., 1999. Getting the knowledge into HCI: Theoretical and practical aspects of Task Knowledge Structures. In S. Chipman, V. Shalin and J. Schraagen (eds), Cognitive Task Analysis, LEA Pulications.